Telangana High Court on Wednesday gave its approval to a proposal by the state government to set up a fast-track court for trial in the case relating to gang-rape and murder of a woman veterinarian.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s unusual silence over the rape and murder of a 26-year old veterinary doctor at Shamshabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad has become a subject of intense debate in the media and political circles.
The Telangana Congress on Tuesday demanded that the K Chandrasekhar Rao government construct a world class memorial for former chief minister Y S Rajashekhara Reddy in Hyderabad.
The income-tax department has issued a notice to the Congress seeking an explanation over the party allegedly receiving funds to the tune of Rs 170 crore from a Hyderabad-based firm as part of its tax evasion probe in an Rs3,300-crore hawala racket case, officials said on Tuesday.
For the last one year, the Telangana state government employees have been eagerly waiting for an announcement from chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao over the increase in their retirement age from 58 years to 61 years as promised by him in his election manifesto last year.
The city police on Tuesday heightened security at the Cherlapally central prison here, where all the four accused involved in the gruesome rape and murder of a woman veterinarian have been lodged.
A 14-point "advisory" issued by Hyderabad Police for women before they ventured out of home drew angry responses from a section of Twitter users on Monday.
Whenever an incident of sexual offence on a woman takes place, there are people who always try to find fault with the victims, rather than the accused.
The rape and murder of a veterinary doctor on the outskirts of Hyderabad in the early hours of Thursday has sent shockwaves across the country and also put the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao in an embarrassing situation.
Telangana Chief Minister K .Chandrashekhar Rao on Sunday directed officials to ensure that the accused in woman veterinarian's gang-rape and murder are tried in a fast track court and the culprits get stringent punishment.
When a 23-year old physio-therapy student (Nirbhaya) was brutally raped and thrown out of a moving train in New Delhi on December 16, 2012, there was an outrage in the entire country.
Even three days after a veterinarian was gangraped and murdered on the outskirts of Hyderabad, Twitter users on Sunday continued to vent their anger and shock over the macabre crime, demanding death for rapists and action against erring policemen.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who had been adopting a tough stand in dealing with the employees of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation all these days, has suddenly turned a Messiah for them.
Tension prevailed near the residence of victim of gang-rape and murder at Shamshabad here on Sunday as local residents locked the gated community to prevent politicians, police and media from entering the place.
The last phone call made by the woman veterinarian, who was gang-raped and murdered near the Outer Ring Road on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Wednesday night, helped the police crack the case.